Code Administrator. The Director of Planning and Community Development or the successor of that position or his or her designee. The Code Administrator administers the Redmond Zoning Code, which is also Title 21 of the Redmond Municipal Code.

Code Compliance Hearing Examiner. A person or persons contracted or hired by the City to carry out the duties assigned by this chapter.

Code Compliance Officer. A city employee or employees designated by the Mayor to enforce the provisions listed in RMC 1.14.030, Applicability. This term also includes city employees to whom the Code Compliance Officer has delegated some or all of his or her duties to the extent of that delegation.

Person. Any individual, association, partnership, corporation, society, firm, joint stock company, state, all political subdivisions of a state, or legal entity either public or private, or any agents and assigns of such individual, association, partnership, corporation, society, firm, joint stock company, state, all political subdivisions of a state, or other legal entity.

Permit. Written governmental permission required by any provision listed in RMC 1.14.030, Applicability, and issued by an authorized official empowering the person to whom it was issued, the holder thereof, or the owner of a specific property to do some act not forbidden by law but not allowed without such authorization. Any conditions, requirements, limitations, drawings, maps, or other materials or writings included or referenced in the permission or attached to the permission shall be part of the permit.

Provision. Any law, regulation, ordinance, or other legal requirement.

Restoration. To take whatever steps are deemed necessary by the Code Compliance Officer to return a property to the condition in which it existed before a violation of any provision listed in RMC 1.14.030, Applicability. Restoration may include, but is not limited to, rehabilitation, removal of fill, removal of materials, excavation, filling, demolition, construction, replacement, repair, and planting, and replacing materials lost or damaged until the prior functions of the property are reestablished. Restoration also includes the costs of studies necessary to determine the condition in which the property existed before a violation of any provision listed in RMC 1.14.030, Applicability, the functions it performed, how best to return it to that state, and how to prevent further harm to the public and the natural environment. (Ord. 2596 § 2 (part), 2011; Ord. 1935 § 2 (part), 1997).